Therapeutical apparatus.



PATENTED AUG. 11, 1903.

G. L. ABELL. '1.HERAPEUTIGAI.. APPARATUS.

APPLIUATION FILED SEPT. 2, 1902.

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Patented August 11, 19.

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GERALD L. ABELL, OFOAKLANhD, CLIFORNIA.

` THERAPEUTICAL APPARA-rlls.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 735,851, dated August 11, 190.;-

Application filed September 2, 1902. Serial No. 121,823. (Nd model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GERALD I.. ABELL, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Oakland, county of Alameda, and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Incandescent-Chromatic-Light Bath-Cabinets; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

This invention relates to certain improvements in incandescent-chromatic-light bathcabinets for the application of heat,circulate d hot air, light, and other agencies of a reinedial nature applied in an inclosed cabinet.

My improvements consist in an inclosed cabinet with means to open the side and top The objects of my invention are to apply in a convenient and eective manner certain desirable therapeutical agencies byV means of an inclosed cabinet having functions and provided with accessories as hereinafter described. y

Referring to the drawings, Figure I is an end elevation of one of my improved cabinets for-therapeutical treatment. Fig. II is a transverse vertical section through Fig. I. Fig. III is a side elevation of the cabinet, one side and half the cover being folded back to show the interior. Fig. IV is a central longitudinal verticalpsection through the cabinet, showing the supplementary device for local treatment. Fig. V is a horizontal section on the line 0c a; in Fig. I. Fig. VI is a longitudinal section through a device for local treatment. Fig. VII is an end view of Fig. VI.

In therapeutical treatment of the kind toy which my invention relates there are various sists ofthe side walls l, angular sloping roof or covers 2 and 3, and rectangular ends 4.. The interior of the cabinet is provided with a series of electric lamps 5, disposed substantially as shown in the various figures of the drawings and in number more or less as their intensity and amount of heat and light emitted. The interior of the cabinet 7 is lined with reflecting-surfaces, preferably mirrors 8, that reiect the heat and light-from the lamps 5 and cause their impingement on the patient, who lies on the bottom 9, formed of transparent plates 10, as shown in Fig. V. The sloping top sides 2 and 3 of the chamber 7 greatly reduce the inclosed space without interfering with the freedom of patients therein. Besides being normal to the patients body they rellect and radiate the heat and light directly and more eectually than in the case of a chamber of rectangular form. The various groups of electric lamps are connected with switches in the usual manner, so each or any of the groups can be brought into action, as may be required. The bottom division of the cabinet is constructed with two chambers 13 and 14, the former connecting with the upper chamber 7 through the grated passages 15, as shown in Figs. II and V. The inner chamber 14 ofthe lower division of the cabinet has sloping sides 12, is provided with lamps 5, and at the top of this chamber is a longitudinal passage 18,`form.ed by the transparent plates l0 and 19, through which heat and light can pass to a patient when resting on the upper plates 10, but in a modified manner, as will be explained. As the temperature of the plates 10 is by contact and pressure communicated directly to the body of a patient resting thereon and as such temperature may exceed what can be borne or desired, I provide for impelling a current of cool air through the passage 18 by means of a rotary' fan 22, that draws in air at 23, forces it through the passage 18, and discharges it at 24, as shown in Fig. III.

The bottom of the main chamber 7 is coinposed of a series ot removable plates 10, which can be conveniently replaced by others ot more or less thickness and of different-colored glass, as the circumstances of treatment may require.

In the passages from the chamber 13 to the grated ways 15 place pivoted valves 25, operated by external index-pointers 26, that pass over arc scales 27 and indicate .the amount of heated air passing through the grated ways 15 into the main chamber 7. By these controllable passages between'the chambers 7 and 13 they can be connected, or the lam ps'in either chamber can be operated independently, thus saving current when the whole series of lamps are not required.

At one or both ends of the lower chamber 13 I provide adjustable registers or air-inlets, as shown at 28 in Fig. Il.

Toventilatethemainchamber7and tocause a current of hot air through the grating 15, I provide a pipe 11, having a regulating-valve 16, as shown in Fig. IV.

29 is a door giving access to the ends ot` the main chamber 7.

6 and 7l are thermometers to indicate the temperature in the chambers 7 and 13.

To open the front side ofthe chamber 7 for the passage of patients out and in and for other purposes, the side 32 is hinged at 33 to the angular top 3, so as to be folded back thereon, as indicated by dotted lines at 34 in Fig.II, and as the angular top 2 and 3 is hinged at 35 the whole can be set up to the position indicated at 36 in the same figure,

so the whole front- 'and top of the chamber 7 will be open for inspection, cleaning, or other purposes. The top 2 and 3 and front side 32 are provided with counterweights 37,attached to chains or ropes 38, that pass over pulleys 39, so the weights 37 will be concealed by and slide up and down in the boxes 40, as shown in Figs. I and II. These devices enable the cabinet to be conveniently opened and closed.

At the front end of the cabinet is provided a pivoted shell 4l, by which a patients head is supported. This shelf 41 is provided with an extensible strut 42, having a screw 43 and hand-wheel 44, by means of which the shelf can be adjusted to various degrees of inclination, as the convenience and condition of a patient may demand.

At the front end ot the chamber 7 I provide a vertically-removable panel 45, preferably of Woven wire covered with cloth, cut out at 46 to fit around the neck of apatient whose head is resting on a cushion 47 on the shelf 41.

For local application to the limbs, chest, abdomen, or other parts of a patient I provide a separate and portable apparatus 48,

(illustrated in Figs. IV, VI, and'VIL) having a series 'of lamps 5, a movable translucent slide 49, and adjustable plates 50 at the sides. The slide 49 being within reach of a patients hands enables the temperature in the chamber 51 to be controlled without opening the cabinet for that purpose. This auxiliary apparatus 48 can be modified in form to tit over any part of the body and when required can be closed at the ends by an elastic cover in the usual manner of such devices. To sustain the auxiliary apparatus 48, I provide a longitudinal bar or tube 52, as shown in Fig. IV, on which this apparatus is suspended by devices permitting vertical and longitudinal adjustment and preventing pressure on a pa-A ditferent groups of lamps as occasion may require, the intensity of each group being regulated accordingly.

Having thus explained the nature and objects of my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a cabinet for therapeutical treatment, a main chamber having rectangular ends and a top formed ot` two united sloping members included between said ends, hinged at one side to a ixed side, counterbalanced, provided on the interior of said sloping members with reflecting-surfaces, and lampsarranged in the angle between said 'refiectingsurfaces, substantially as specified.

2. In a cabinet fortherapeutical treatment, a main chamber having a roof formed of two united sloping members hinged at one side to a fixed side and at the other side to a folding side, counterbalanced, provided on the interior of said sloping members with reflectingsurfaces, and lamps arranged in the angle between said reflecting-surfaces, substantially as specilied.

3. In a cabinet for therapeutical treatment,

a main lamp-heated upper chamber to receive n llamp-heated lower chamber, a double transparent ioor between said chambers, side passages connecting said lower and upper chatnbers, with regulating-Valves therein, means for supplying air between the plates of the double transparent tloor, and means for sup- IOO IIO

plyingacurrentof air through said connected upper and lower chambers, substantially as specified.

5. A cabinet for therapeutical treatment, an upper main operating-chamber to receive the patient being treated, a subchamber connected therewith by air-passages, valves to control these passages,the lower chamber provided with lamps set normal to sloping surfaces forming the side walls 'of the lower chamber, substantially as specified.

6. In a cabinet fortherapeutical treatment,

a main operating-chamber to receive patients,

a subchamber connected therewith by grated passages, a third chamber inclosed by the lower one, sloping bottom walls in this third chamber, and a row of lampstherein set normal to the sloping bottom walls, substantially as specified.

7. In a cabinet for therapeutical treatment, a main operating-chamber to receive patients being treated,a subchamberbeneath the main one and an intermediate chamber inclosed by the second or sub chamber, a series of lamps in the sub and third chamber, and a cool-air duct over the latter and beneath the' main chamber, substantially as specified.

8. In a cabinet for therapeutical treatment, a main upper chamber, a subchamber connecting therewith, an intermediate chamber between the top and sub chamber, lamps in the main, sub and intermediate chambers and an air-passage over the latter having a translucent bottom and top and devices to impel cool air therethrough, substantially as specified.

9. In a cabinet for therapeutical treatment, a main lamp-heated receiving-chamber, a transparent iioor thereto, means for radiating heat into said chamber through the iioor from beneath, a vertically-sliding panel at one end of said main chamber, notched to t the pa-v tients neck, and an adjustable head-rest external to said chamber beyond the verticallysliding panel, whereby all of the patient eX- cept the head can besubmitted to radiantheat treatment, substantially as specified.

10. In a cabinet for therapeutical treatment,a main lamp-heated receiving-chamber,

`having a hinged double sloping top, provided on itsinterior inclined faces with reflectingsUrfaceS, a front side hinged to said top, a

double transparent door, a lamp-heated second chamber beneath said door, having sloping reflecting-surfaces at its bottom, another lamp-heated chamber beneath said second chamber, connected with the main receivingchamber by side passages, air-regulatingv valves in said passages, means for sending a current of air through said lower and main chambers, and means for supplying air through the plates of said double transparl ent floor, substantially as specified.

ll. In a cabinet for therapeutical treatment,a main lamp-heated receiving-chamber, a second lamp-heated chamber beneath said main chamber, a double floor between said chambers, formed of transparent plates, the

upper ones of which areremovable, side pas-g -ment, a main chamber adapted to receive patients, provided with lamps and radiating-surfaces, a supplementary portable chamber adapted to go therein and t over dierent parts of a patient, a supporting bar or runway on which this portable chamber is moved, and means to adjust the latter vertically and prevent its Weight from bearing on a patient, substantially as specified.

13. In a cabinet for therapeutical treatment, a main operating-chamber provided with lamps and reflecting-surfaces,a supplementaryportable chamber to go therein, the latter provided with lamps, a translucent slide beneath the lamps and vertically adjustable sides whereby the height of the portable chamber can be varied, substantially as specified.

14. In a cabinet for therapeutical treatment, a main chamber to receive patients, a subchamber beneath and connected with the main chamber by controllable passages, a third chamber beneath the main one and interposed translucent plates through which heat and light can pass from this third chamber to the main one, and groups of electric lights of different color in these several chambers, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GERALD L. ABELL.

W'itnesses: ALFRED A. ENQUIST,

P. W. J. LANDER.v

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Itis hereby eert-ied that in Letters Patent No. 735,851, granted August 11, 1903, upon the application of Gerald L. Abell, of Oakland, California, the title of the invention Was erroneously Written and printed Therapeutieal Apparatus/7 Whereas [SEAL] E. B. MOORE,

Acting Commissioner of Patents. 

